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• Corruption is nature’s way of restoring our faith in democracy.

  Peter Ustinov

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Faith, Corruption

• The corruption in reporting starts very early. It’s like the police reporting on the police.

  Julian Assange

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corruption
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  The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

  Kurt Cobain

  Topics in Challenge, Inspirational

  Tags in Corruption, Duty

• All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

  Ellis Peters

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corruption

• To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corruption, Greed

• The victory of Hamas is not only based on the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a vision and a program, and this is the reason why the Palestinian people chose Hamas. However, there is no doubt that the corruption helped Hamas’s victory.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Palestinian, Corruption

• The thing which amazes me is that I know perfectly well, as a historian, that there is corruption in any government – there’s always corruption. It’s bad when it’s more than fifteen percent.

  Michel Brunet

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Corruption

• My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.

  Vikas Swarup

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brutality, Corruption

• Patrimonial capitalism’s legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

  James Surowiecki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corruption, Euphemism

• The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.

  Bradley A. Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Channels, Corruption

• Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

  John Steinbeck

  Topics in Fear, Life, Power

  Tags in Corruption

• It’s interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

  Martin Scorsese

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corruption, Relevant

• People talk about immigration, but they won’t talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Immigration, Corruption

• The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

  David Hume

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corruption

• Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation… But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

  Bruce Kent

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Corruption

• Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

  Edward Gibbon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corruption, Infallible, Symptom

• Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  Ian Hacking

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Possible, Corruption, Interpretation

• If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change – even though they don’t really know what they’re trying to prevent – then you can get pessimistic.

  Paul Hawken

  Topics in Country, Economy

  Tags in Corruption, Change

• The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.

  Frank Serpico

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corruption, Friends, Believe

• I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.

  Patrick McHenry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corruption, Need